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Mental Health

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been detained in hospital and given compulsory treatment under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 in each year that it has been in force. [179667]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The table shows the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983. A patient can be detained more than once during a year: The Department does not collect data in relation to the number of detained patients who were given compulsory treatment.
Number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983, on admission and subsequent to admission, of patients in national health service facilities (including high security psychiatric hospitals), in England, 1984 to 2003

	Total detentions (on admission and subsequent to admission) in NHS facilities
1984	13,977
1985	14,909
1986	14,725
1987–88	24,811
1988–89	27,151
1989–90	27,497
1990–91	30,037
1991–92	32,794
1992–93	34,311
1993–94	37,092
1994–95	40,234
1995–96	41,628
1996–97	40,516
1997–98	43,291
1998–99	46,003
1999–2000	45,546
2000–01	45,654
2001–02	45,563
2002–03	45,064

Notes:
1. Figures exclude previous legislation (fifth schedule) and other Acts.
2. Data for 1984 to 1986 were collected by calendar year.
3. A patient may be detained more than once.
4. Data for patients detained subsequent to admission were not collected in respect of high security psychiatric hospitals prior to 1996–97 and in respect of other NHS facilities prior to 1987–88.
Source:
Department of Health statistics division.




 
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Myeloma

Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent research the Government has undertaken on the causes of myeloma. [178827]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The main Government agency for research into the causes of and treatments for disease is the Medical Research Council (MRC). MRC expenditure on research on myeloma is shown in the table.

	Funding (£)
1998–99	410,000
1 999–2000	390,000
2000–01	360,000
2001–02	420,000
2002–03	(51)—

⁽⁵¹⁾ Not available

The MRC is not currently funding research into the causes of myeloma. It has, however, supported two major myeloma studies: Myeloma VII and Myeloma VIII (the figures in the table do not include spend on these) and has awarded £1 million to the Myeloma IX trial involving 1,600 patients. This trial will evaluate a number of different therapies and modalities of treatment used and being developed for myeloma, to provide information on their impact on response rates, survival and quality of life.

The MRC funds a considerable amount of basic underpinning research that is excluded from site-specific figures. In addition, research classified as undertaken in one site may well have implications for another.

Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of people in the UK diagnosed with myeloma entered clinical trials in each of the last 10 years. [178829]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Information in the form requested is available in respect of publicly funded trials from the date of the establishment of the national cancer research network (NCRN) in 2001 and is shown in the table.
 
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	Percentage of myeloma patients entered into NCRN clinical trials
2001–02	1.2
2002–03(52)	Nil
2003–04(53)	10.3

⁽⁵²⁾ Figures for this year and for 2001–02 are for England only.
⁽⁵³⁾ UK.

The figures reflect the pattern of recruitment of patients to a series of Medical Research Council funded myeloma studies. One, the myeloma VIII trial, had accrued the required number of patients by March 2002. Its successor, myeloma IX, opened in May 2003.

NHS (Language Services)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what security arrangements have been made in relation to NHS language provision; and whether all NHS Direct translators and interpreters will be subject in future to a police check by the Criminal Records Bureau. [179669]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The NHS Direct contract provides only for telephone, not face-to-face, interpretation and interpreters will be working in an anonymous environment. In keeping with child protection guidance, interpreters will be subject to checks by the Criminal Records Bureau. Any national health service trusts using face-to-face interpreting services outside of this contract will need to use their own discretion on this matter.

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to support the role that language services play in facilitating access to NHS services. [179671]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The Department is committed to supporting the provision of language services as part of the overall drive to promote equity of access to national health service services.

The commitment to provide a national translation and interpreting service through NHS Direct was outlined in the NHS Plan. In addition to this, the Department has undertaken a series of initiatives to further improvements in language support for patients for whom English is not a first language.

In March this year, NHS Direct acquired a new national contract for an interpreting and translation service which provides access for all NHS organisations to a high quality telephone-based interpretation and translation services including the provision of British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation. NHS services are accessible 24 hours a day. Primary care trusts are able to commission interpreting and translation services from NHS Direct as and when required.

This new service includes monitoring of languages requested. The scope of the service covers all languages as required. The new NHS Direct commissioning framework will ensure the provision of assured quality standards for both interpreting and translation, as well as a shared and centralised knowledge management system for translated materials. NHS Direct will provide value for money in terms of quality, responsiveness and cost of the service.
 
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NHS Dentistry

Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much on average was paid per dentist for NHS dental services in each year since 1992. [180191]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The average annual gross payment to dentists in the general dental service (GDS) in England is shown in the table.

	Gross income (£)
1992–93	83,400
1993–94	76,300
1 994–95	79,300
1995–96	79,600
1996–97	79,700
1997–98	79,300
1998–99	82,100
1999–2000	82,100
2000–01	84,500
2001–02	86,300
2002–03	88,100
2003–04	90,900

Source:
Dental Practice Board

Salaried dentists are paid on pay scales as set by the doctors' and dentists' review body. Figures for average payments are not available.

NHS Funding (Warrington)

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) capital and (b) revenue funding has been allocated to the NHS in Warrington in each year since 1997. [180083]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is shown in the tables.
Expenditure on capital additions— purchased £000

Warrington Hospital National Health Service Trust	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01
Land	171	0	0	0
Buildings, installations and fittings	773	1,060	1,621	756
Assets under construction	0	0	0	0
Equipment	687	748	1,668	1,860
Total	1,631	1,808	3,289	2,616

£000

North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	2001–02
Land	0
Buildings, installations and fittings	1,750
Assets under construction	0
Equipment	2,327
Total	4,077

£000

North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	2002–03
Land	0
Buildings excluding dwellings	2,380
Dwellings	7
Assets under construction and payments on account	1,545
Plant and machinery	2,165
Transport equipment	0
Information technology	83
Furniture and fittings	22
Total	6,202

Sources:
Audited summarisation schedules of the Warrington Hospital NHS Trust 1997–98 to 2000–01.
Audited summarisation schedules of the North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2001–02 and 2002–03.




 
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The Department made revenue allocations to health authorities (HAs) from 1997–98 to 2002–03 and to primary care trusts (PCTs) in 2003–04. These are shown in table 1.
1. Revenue allocations to North Cheshire HA and Warrington PCT—1997–98 to 2005–06 £000

	North Cheshire HA	Warrington PCT
1997–98	145,260	n/a
1998–99	151,836	n/a
1999–2000	201,585	n/a
2000–01	217,660	n/a
2001–02	236,528	n/a
2002–03	261,550	n/a
2003–04	n/a	163,513
2004–05	n/a	178,963
2005–06	n/a	195,266

Note:
N/a=not applicable.

The NHS regional offices determined the distribution of NHS capital from 1997–98 to 2002–03. This is shown in table 2.
2. North West region capital planning totals 1997–98 to 2002–03 £000

	Total
1997–98	150,119
1998–99	136,937
1999–2000	156,369
2000–01	164,778
2001–02	171,373
2002–03	202,521

 
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From 2003–04, the distribution of strategic capital and the access fund is determined by strategic health authorities (SHAs), whilst operational capital is allocated direct to NHS trusts and primary care trusts. This is shown in tables 3 and 4.
3. Cheshire and Merseyside SHA strategic capital and access fund 2003–04 to 2005–06 £000

	Strategic	Access
2003–04	37,805	5,603
2004–05	41,940	5,603
2005–06	50,589	5,603

4. Operational capital 2003–04 to 2005–06 £000

	Warrington PCT	North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust
2003–04	118	2,403
2004–05	135	2,743
2005–06	153	3,104

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